As I write this, the Nobel Prizes for 2007 are being announced. During the week of announcements, each day includes news of another award being bestowed for outstanding contributions in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, peace, and economics. As a technophile, the science awards have always been the most interesting to me. This year, prior to the awards, new releases of several scientific packages on PyPI caught my eye and I was struck by the coincidence. I started to wonder: How long before a Nobel Prize is awarded to a scientist who uses Python for their work in some significant way?
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This column was originally published by Python Magazine in November of 2007.
4 comments:
If I ever win the Nobel Prize in Physics, I'll be sure to mention Python in some way. :)
I'll hold you to that, Georg!
Hopefully the ATLAS particle physics experiment at CERN will make a big enough discovery to warrant a Nobel Prize in the next decade. They use Python to drive their very complex simulation and data processing code around. (OK, much of the number crunching is in C++, but it's a Python interface!)
@Stan - I'll have to keep an eye on the work coming out of ATLAS. Thanks for the tip!
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